AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago"Phones" were named after the Greek word for "sound", but modern phones are used in silence as often as not.message-squaremessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1222arrow-down128
arrow-up1194arrow-down1message-square"Phones" were named after the Greek word for "sound", but modern phones are used in silence as often as not.AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squareSGforce@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·1 year agoGive it a few years and the term “computer” might be superseded. We’ll forget where the word originated.
minus-squareValiantDust@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up22·1 year agoWell, most people already forgot where it originated. That is from people whose job was to compute stuff by using tables, calculators and paper.
minus-squareNewEnglandRedshirt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoI’m a freaking history teacher whose father was a computer scientist in the 70s and I didn’t know this until I read Hidden Figures
Give it a few years and the term “computer” might be superseded. We’ll forget where the word originated.
Well, most people already forgot where it originated. That is from people whose job was to compute stuff by using tables, calculators and paper.
I’m a freaking history teacher whose father was a computer scientist in the 70s and I didn’t know this until I read Hidden Figures